Created in 1997 as an experiment in enhancing student learning, the Peer Educator Program is designed to facilitate and enrich the learning supported by undergraduate instruction at Â鶹´«Ã½. Peer educators are students who help a faculty member with the administration of a class.
More specifically, the Peer Educator Program aims to:
- enhance and enrich the learning experiences of the peer educators through close collaboration with a faculty member
- enhance and enrich learning in undergraduate courses, especially lower-division university and school core courses
- contribute to the Residential Learning Community initiative to increase awareness of the close relationships between experiential and classroom learning and cultivate a frame of mind conducive to life-long learning
- support faculty initiatives to develop and implement pedagogies that further other goals of the program and of the university.